USB Recording interface

[will_raymo2000]

Hi,

I have been looking around for a fairly cheap way of recording multitrack and stumbled across a guy that used the cheap $3 usb sound cards. People were commenting stating that there were going to be major latency problems as none of the units were synced together.

My question therefore is, is it possible to implement an upgraded diy version of these cheap usb soundcards to allow for multitrack recording with reduced latency? (one clock for all the interfaces?)

I understand that its nigh on impossible to simply create a multichannel sound card that goes into one usb socket but i'm envisaging a box with 3.5mm jacks on the front and then one pcb per stereo channel and hence one usb plug per stereo channel...

Thanks!